Man kicks car door, stabs driver in neck, then is knocked out

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After a confrontation Thursday, April 23, 2015, at a Pasadena AM-PM store, a man who reportedly stabbed the woman, seen second from left in this image from cell-phone video, was then knocked out by her boyfriend, right. (Image from Fox 11 video)

PASADENA — A man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly kicked a car door then stabbed a woman in the neck, police said.

Pasadena police Lt. John Mercado said a woman from Modesto was sitting in her car in the 400 block of East Walnut Street around 5:30 p.m. when a man walked up to her vehicle and kicked the passenger side door.

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